Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effectiveness of CCTV in addressing fly tipping hotspots.

Across two rounds of our fly-tipping grant scheme, we have awarded nearly £1.2 million to help more than 30 councils purchase equipment, such as CCTV, to tackle fly-tipping at known hot-spots. Round one has seen good results; for example, Durham County Council has seen a reduction in fly-tipping of over 60% in the areas where CCTV was installed onto existing lighting columns. A selection of case studies from round one, including for Durham Country Council and other projects utilising CCTV, have been published so that others can learn about those interventions which were most successful. These are available at Keep Britain Tidy’s website.

Round two case studies will be made available in due course and we have recently launched a third round that could see a further £1 million handed out in grants next year to help even more councils tackle the issue.